Quotes for July 1248 quotes · 39 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every July 12: the anniversary does not move.

• A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  3.4 · 26 votes · 184 reads

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• Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence,

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  4.6 · 48 votes · 160 reads

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• All heiresses are beautiful.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  4.7 · 62 votes · 3 reads

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• All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

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  T. S. Eliot

  PoetAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.9 · 22 votes · 139 reads

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• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  3.1 · 41 votes · 177 reads

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• Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  3.8 · 32 votes · 45 reads

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• For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

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  Queen Victoria

  RoyaltyBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.7 · 37 votes · 18 reads

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• From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.4 · 32 votes · 102 reads

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• God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

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  Emil Cioran

  PhilosopherRomanian1911 · 20th century

  4.4 · 18 votes · 14 reads

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• He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.4 · 43 votes · 97 reads

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• However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  4.0 · 52 votes · 194 reads

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• Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

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  H. G. Wells

  AuthorAmerican1866 · 19th century

  4.7 · 21 votes · 9 reads

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• I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.1 · 28 votes · 121 reads

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• I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a political leader that realises in the end his responsibility is to decide. And when he decides, he divides.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  3.2 · 46 votes · 84 reads

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• If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  3.3 · 58 votes · 16 reads

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• If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.5 · 39 votes · 191 reads

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.6 · 9 votes · 114 reads

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• It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  3.6 · 37 votes · 70 reads

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• Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

  

  George Washington

  PoliticianAmerican1732 · 18th century

  3.8 · 48 votes · 160 reads

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• Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

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  Fred A. Allen

  ComedianAmerican1894 · 19th century

  4.0 · 22 votes · 148 reads

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• Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.3 · 55 votes · 30 reads

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• Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.9 · 39 votes · 146 reads

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• Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  3.0 · 13 votes · 193 reads

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• Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  4.9 · 33 votes · 3 reads

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• Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.7 · 9 votes · 89 reads

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• Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.8 · 17 votes · 64 reads

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• Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.3 · 51 votes · 84 reads

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• Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

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  Peter F. Drucker

  WriterAmerican1909 · 20th century

  4.0 · 36 votes · 139 reads

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• One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland -and no other.

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  Emil Cioran

  PhilosopherRomanian1911 · 20th century

  3.7 · 39 votes · 96 reads

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• Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  3.7 · 14 votes · 183 reads

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• The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  3.2 · 20 votes · 17 reads

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• The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 37 votes · 18 reads

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• There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.2 · 64 votes · 185 reads

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• There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

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  Leonard Cohen

  WriterCanadian1934 · 20th century

  4.0 · 21 votes · 26 reads

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• Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  3.2 · 45 votes · 51 reads

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• To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

  

  Jorge Luis Borges

  WriterArgentinian1899 · 19th century

  3.2 · 16 votes · 198 reads

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• To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.3 · 23 votes · 139 reads

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• To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.3 · 55 votes · 57 reads

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• We are all born mad. Some remain so.

  

  Salvador Dalí

  PainterSpanish1904 · 20th century

  3.0 · 27 votes · 46 reads

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• We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  5.0 · 26 votes · 44 reads

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• We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves...

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.3 · 16 votes · 114 reads

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• We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  3.5 · 36 votes · 184 reads

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• What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

  

  Pericles

  PoliticianGreek-495 · 5th century BC

  4.3 · 63 votes · 55 reads

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• When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  3.7 · 37 votes · 11 reads

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• Whoever has the gold makes all the rules.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 36 votes · 160 reads

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• You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.5 · 12 votes · 56 reads

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• You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

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  James Allen

  EssayistAmerican1864 · 19th century

  4.1 · 62 votes · 197 reads

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